The course examines contemporary gender relations in contemporary literary and cultural studies. It also examines the practices of gender in society, everyday lives, the school, the workplace, and the home. To what extent these relationscan be explained in terms of women's and men's choices and to what extent in terms of masculinities and femininities, laws and institutions, and the distribution of power and resources in contemporary society, are key issues to be explored in classes of the course. The ways that ethnicity, 'race' and class modify and give meaning to gender debates in a specific territory and also in an international context will also be a central concern. Gender is encountered in every aspect of people 19s lives. It informs public debate, legislation, how much money can be earned, the victim of gender inequalities, the possibilities to be exposed to risk and sexual violences in society are also concerns of the course

• Making more sense of the nature of gender and its differentiation as well as manifestation in society.
  
• Being able to apply some basic concepts of gender and its relations to other field of social and cultural studies research and understand how to relate them into their major studies of literary and cultural studies.
• Having the ability to discern the knowledge of gender and its relation to sex, age, race, ethnicity, political concern, sexual orientation, body image, and sexual organ.
• Being responsible to disseminate the knowledge of gender and its concern in their construe with literary and cultural studies research in order to make gender more public and thus it is understood as a cultural product, so that the students are supposed to understand the important of how to protect themselves and others from gender discrimination

• Pilcher, J. and Whelehan, I. 2004. Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies. London: Sage Publications.
• Selected journal articles